abolition

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The act of doing away with or the state of being done away with; annulment.

n. Abolishment of slavery.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The act of abolishing, or the state of being abolished; an annulling; abrogation; utter destruction

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The act of abolishing, or the state of being abolished; annulment; abrogation; utter destruction: as, the abolition of laws, decrees, ordinances, rites, customs, debts, etc.; the abolition of slavery.

n. the act of abolishing a system or practice or institution (especially abolishing slavery)

Etymologies

Latin abolitiō, abolitiōn-, from abolitus, past participle of abolēre, to abolish; see abolish.

(American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

They first insisted that the abolition of the slave-trade would ruin the colonies -- next the _abolition of slavery_ was to be the certain destruction of the islands -- and now the education of children is deprecated as fraught with disastrous consequences.

I understand the Rothbardian, knee-jerk impulse to say "abolish federal agency X," but I'm not sure abolition is even necessary, so long as people are allowed to "innovate around" existing bureaucracy.

The last successful American third party, the Republicans, had a noble cause in abolition and the dominant political imperative in American history: Union, and they elected several candidates to statewide office before Lincoln (their second Presidential nominee) won the White House.

The Genies are long out of the bottle as the Scots and the Welsh assemblies would now have to make a serious mess of it to earn sufficient enmity, nay the deep hatred of their electorates that their abolition is demanded.

One of the essential things to keep in mind in regard to its abolition is this-that the member whom we send to Parliament shall have no voice whatever in naming persons to the public service, or in determining the persons who shall receive government favors.